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DANTON


After weeks of illness, Robespierre awakes from fever dreams – by this point his former comrade-in-arms and now foe Danton has already returned to Paris. A bitter power struggle to determine the course of the French Revolution erupts between the pleasure-loving Danton (Gérard Depardieu) and the ascetic Robespierre. Wajda shows how political ideals can devolve into terror, with the rampant spread of paranoia and the guillotine's transformation into an instrument of power. The parallels to Poland in the early 1980s under General Jaruzelski were no coincidence.
FRA, POL 1983 / 136 min / OV + eng SUB
Language: French
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Screenings
  • Apollo Mo, 27.04. / 18:30 Uhr
  • DFF, Frankfurt Mo, 27.04. / 20:30 Uhr
  • Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carriere
  • Cinematographer: Igor Luther
  • Editor: Halina Prugar-Ketling
  • Music: Jean Prodromidès
  • Sound: Bruno Charie, Louis Gimel
  • Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chereau
  • Production Company: Gaumont, Les Films du Losange
  • Co-Production Company: TF1 Films Productions, Film Polski, Française de Production Cinématographique (S.F.P.C.), Zespół Filmowy "X"
  • Rights Holder: Gaumont
After weeks of illness, Robespierre awakes from fever dreams – by this point his former comrade-in-arms and now foe Danton has already returned to Paris. A bitter power struggle to determine the course of the French Revolution erupts between the pleasure-loving Danton (Gérard Depardieu) and the ascetic Robespierre. Wajda shows how political ideals can devolve into terror, with the rampant spread of paranoia and the guillotine's transformation into an instrument of power. The parallels to Poland in the early 1980s under General Jaruzelski were no coincidence.
  • Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carriere
  • Cinematographer: Igor Luther
  • Editor: Halina Prugar-Ketling
  • Music: Jean Prodromidès
  • Sound: Bruno Charie, Louis Gimel
  • Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chereau
  • Production Company: Gaumont, Les Films du Losange
  • Co-Production Company: TF1 Films Productions, Film Polski, Française de Production Cinématographique (S.F.P.C.), Zespół Filmowy "X"
  • Rights Holder: Gaumont